Word: hurs
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...border clutching their screaming kids. Then the smugglers started throwing rocks at the police. And the police started throwing them back. Then shots were fired. The horses reared, bucking their carts, but they were whipped on by their Drivers to cross the frontier like something out of Ben Hur's chariot race...
...decade when Hollywood directors first traveled to distant climes, hoping to bring a foreign flavor to their pictures. Of the '50s' ten Oscar winners, five - "An American in Paris," "Around the World in Eighty Days," "The Bridge on the River Kwai," "Gigi" and "Ben-Hur" - were shot abroad. Remember too that Marilyn and Jayne weren't the only sex symbols crashing in the '50s; it was also the time of Sophia Loren, Gina Lollobrigida, Brigitte Bardot. And the movies' all-time entrancer, an Anglo-Dutch princess named Edda Kathleen van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston - Audrey Hepburn...
Ridley Scott's Gladiator glances back to the old sword-and-toga epics, and it's surely sturdier than the 1959 Ben-Hur (which won an unconscionable 11 Oscars). It has the fights and the fraught manhood while skipping the piety. DreamWorks, the film's distributor, knows how to market a movie to the Academy; it won last year with the smallish American Beauty. And the film boasts a strong, unsentimental performance from Russell Crowe...
Colonial.--"Ben Hur...
...Democratic ballots in an effort to shift the Electoral College majority to the Republican candidate, Rutherford Hayes of Ohio. In 1876 as in 2000, both parties sent into Florida a posse of top lawyers and other notables. Among the Hayes advocates was General Lew Wallace, the author of Ben-Hur...